The Lebanese Startup Replacing Shared Passwords With Shared Access
AccessOff is a Lebanese startup that lets people and teams share online accounts without handing over passwords. Founded by Youssef Alhomsi and Abeer AlAhdab and based at Berytech in Beirut, it gives the account owner control over what the invited person can do, for how long, with full activity tracking.
Sharing a company LinkedIn login over Slack. Emailing a co-founder the GoDaddy password to fix a DNS issue. Handing PayPal credentials to the freelancer who runs the ads. These are the small, daily security risks that AccessOff wants to remove from the way people work online. The Lebanese startup, based at Berytech in Beirut, has built a desktop app that lets account owners share access to any online account without ever revealing the password. The person on the other side gets in, does the work they were invited to do, and nothing else. When the time is up, access ends. Replacing the shared password The product solves a problem most teams quietly accept. Passwords get passed around in chats, notes apps, and spreadsheets. They live with people who no longer need them. They travel through channels that should not see them. AccessOff is built on the idea that the access itself, not the password, is what should be shared. The flow is short. Both sides install AccessOff on Mac or Windows. The account owner logs into the platform they want to share, sets what the invited person can and cannot do, decides how long the access lasts, then sends an invite. AccessOff compares its own user experience to Slack, with workspaces, channels, and invitations, but applied to logins rather than messages. From LinkedIn to PayPal AccessOff is not tied to a single category. The team says the product works across social platforms, tech tools, financial services, legal software, and education tools, with named examples including LinkedIn, Hostinger, GoDaddy, PandaDoc, and PayPal. A founder can hand the company LinkedIn to an agency and limit them to posting. An owner can let a developer touch the hosting account for a day, then close the door automatically. Every shared session is tracked, so the account owner can see what the other party did while inside. That tracking layer is what turns AccessOff from a convenience into something teams can point to when they need to talk about complianc